Software Engineer - Analytical Engine - Featurespace

PowerToFly; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Cambridge is seeking a passionate Software Engineer to enhance their financial crime fighting technology. The role requires experience in software development across the full SDLC and a relevant STEM degree. Key responsibilities include implementing data-intensive applications, optimising modelling workflows, and engineering maintainable solutions. The position offers a hybrid working model, with expectations for in-office collaboration, ensuring impactful contributions to the team's success.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing applications in any language.
• Understanding of the full SDLC, including source control, testing and code reviews.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for analytical technology that is fast, flexible, and easy to use.
• Implementing data intensive applications and machine learning components.
• Optimising and scaling modelling workflows for large datasets.

Skills

Software development

Problem-solving

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Education

Relevant STEM degree (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Maths)

Tools

Java

Tensorflow

PyTorch

Linux

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

The Opportunity

Featurespace are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our team. You will work on our industry-leading financial crime fighting technology, making the world a safer place to transact alongside our existing team of innovators and experts.

We are looking for individuals who can deliver and maintain a robust product across the full software development life cycle.

You will help us achieve ourgoals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by

• Being responsible for analytical technology that is fast, flexible, and easy to use.

• Implementing data intensive applications and machine learning components, enabling Analytics teams to deliver state-of-the-art modelsin a timely manner.

• Optimising and scaling modelling workflows required to build analytics for increasingly large datasets.

• Implementing new features within ARIC (our software platform) that improvesthe modelling lifecycle of analytics.

It is first and foremost and engineering role – enabling users to create machine learning and analytics solutions.

This position is based in our Cambridge office, with 3 days per week in the office expected.

Day to DayResponsibilities

Core responsibilities of all members of the team include

• Improving workflows for designing, deploying, and maintaining analytics

• Engineering optimized and maintainable data intensive applications

• Championing software engineering process and process improvements

• Providing support for mission critical services deployed to production including an on-call rota

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Relevant STEM degree (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Maths)
• Experience designing and developing applications in any language
• Understanding of the full SDLC, including source control, testing and code reviews
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• Knowledge of secure software development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing applications in Java
• Knowledge of the lifecycle around training and deploying machine learning models
• Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing
• Knowledge of database architectures and data layouts for efficient processing
• Experience with real-time event processing systems
• Experience with performance tuning and profiling
• Ability to design information rich tools in a user-friendly way
• Understanding and use of GenAI technologies in a secure software development lifecycle
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch
• Experience with working in a Linux environment

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.